From Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian: Let’s face it – all the candidates are imperfect. I don’t even hope for an election in which that won’t be true. All the candidates are running precisely because they want to be able to exercise big power for what they see as the good; and I see […]
Susan Sarandon Fears Hillary Foreign Policy More Than Trump
Source: RealClear Politics Susan Sarandon: Hillary Clinton Is “More Dangerous” Than Donald Trump; “We’ll Be In Iran In Two Seconds” Actress Susan Sarandon spoke with TYT Politics Reporter Jordan Chariton about Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy record. “She did not learn from Iraq, and she is an interventionist, and she has done horrible things… and very […]
Donald and Hillary—Division, Mutual Rage, Bitterness, Contempt
Welcome to the 2016 presidential election. Ramesh Ponnuru, whom Dick and I enjoyed meeting on a National Review Danube River cruise (just prior to the flooding now taking place), writes that the debate among conservatives pits “people who have heretofore been friends with similar views on almost all issues, and who on each side have […]
Obama/Clinton’s Energy Hypocrisy
The media has done its best to ignore a speech on energy recently given by Donald Trump. Mr. Trump campaign pledge: “From an environmental standpoint, my priorities are very simple: clean air and clean water.” (Not climate change!) Holman Jenkins in the WSJ writes about Donald Trump’s “sensible energy plan.” Mr. Trump, in his set-piece […]
French Unions Fostering Cultural Suicide?
Why are French unions striking? They are protesting the changes President Francois Hollande and Prime Minister Manual Valls would make to France’s 1999 labor laws. The Socialist Hollande government is looking to add more flexibility to France’s rigid 35-hour workweek. The 1999 laws were enacted in an attempt to boost employment. By imposing prohibitive minimum […]
“It’s Always a Mess with Hillary”
Mr. Trump sees in the people behind him a party of just regular folk, just like the Democrat Party represented when Peggy Noonan was a young woman, she reminds us. Bloomberg’s Joshua Green recently asked Mr. Trump what the party would look like in five or ten or so years. Replied Mr. Trump, “Love the […]
Katie Couric Disgraces Her Profession
Read from NPR the manipulative editing Katie Couric, executive producer and narrator, was involved in while interviewing a Virginia gun rights organization. In the footage for the documentary “Under the Gun,” the editing makes the participants look shocked and rather stupid, as though they are stumped by Katie Couric’s key question on background checks. Fortunately, […]
Terrorists/Unions Killing French Tourism
Dick and I are back in Paris after several days in Beaune, France, the heart of Burgundy and its wine. Once again we stayed at our favored L’Hote de Beaune, first introduced to us by a Butterfield & Robinson bike tour we took about five years ago. Biking through Burgundy on the mythical Route des […]
Thumbing Their Noses at D.C. Elites
As Hillary Clinton’s once double-digit lead over Donald Trump narrows to only three percentage points, according to the WSJ, it’s important to understand that voters for Donald Trump are doing more than just rejecting President Obama and his policies. Equally important is that they are rejecting “the brand of unprincipled ‘conservatism’ that marked the Bush […]
Two for the Price of One—Redux?
No one has to remind voters how “transcendentally bizarre” the 2016 presidential race has been. With two almost-nominees sporting the highest unfavorable ratings in modern history, it seems as though the majority of voters—Democrats and Republicans alike—are going to vote based on their intense dislike for the opposing party. Maureen Dowd of the NYT calls […]
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